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DC History & Local Area Studies: Go-Go

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Go-Go Archive at DC Public Library

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In memory of music icon Chuck Brown, the DC Public Library has established a Go-Go archive to honor, preserve, enjoy and learn from DC's original music.

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The Beat! by Kip Lornell; Charles C. Stephenson; Thomas Sayers Ellis (Photographer)
ISBN: 9781604732412
Publication Date: 2009-07-22
Go-Go Live by Natalie Hopkinson
ISBN: 9780822352112
Publication Date: 2012-05-22
Take Me Out the the Go-Go by Kato Hammond; Marlon Green (Editor); Byron Jackson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781508597612
Publication Date: 2015-04-29

History of Go-Go

Little Benny and the Masters (Rory "DC" Felton on saxophone and MeShell Ndegeocello on bass) at the Metro Club, 1986.

Photograph by Thomas Sayers Ellis